"Discusses the role of social photography in effecting a change in the ideology of the American Dream from individualism to co-operation during the Great Depression of the 1930s." Focuses on the work of Farm Security Administration photographers of that period.
Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01940
Notes:
Nieman Report via online. 3 pages., Report about photographs taken by women in rural China for a book: "Visual voices: 100 photographs of village China by the women of Yunnan Province."
Online from publication, by membership. 6 pages., As a farmer/rancher, photographer, and freelancer, Author Johnson features four of her photos to "encourage you to take pause and recognize the unique gifts and opportunities that agriculture provides our children on a daily basis."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29245
Notes:
Via KCET and "Documenting the Face of America" web site. 3 pages., Announcement and summary of a documentary about "the legendary group of New Deal-sponsored photographers who traversed the country in the 1930s and early 1940s to capture some of the most iconic images in history."
Focuses on award-winning photojournalist David Guttenfelder who worked with Associated Press, New York Times newspaper, other. He spent his childhood in Iowa, studying and working on farms.
